The Family of Inglis of Auchindinny and Redhall

The Anglo-Saxon period in the history of Great Britain

It was a beautiful and desperate spring  of the year 449 when long narrow boats of newcomers came swiftly to the shores of Kent or nearby and landed there. The resistance was useless as the tall potent men with flowing hair and bronzed faces, glittering swords and shields leaped ashore one afterward another. They came from the meadows past the marshes, from the dark woods and the flat and sandy shores of the North Sea, which were overcrowded and couldn't give enough food for the people, living there. So, the newcomers became masters of the land which we know at present as England but at those time it hadn't had any proper name nonetheless.

The Anglo-Saxon Catamenia in the History of Uk

Anglo-Saxon — Англосаксы (Общее название германских племен — англов, саксов, ютов и фризов, положивших начало английскому народу).

The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of Britain

 1. Jutes, Angles and Saxon in Great Great britain

  • desirable — желанный
  • Angles ['æŋglz] — Англы
  • Saxons  ['sæks(ə)n] — Cаксы
  • Jutes [ʤuːts] — Юты
  • warlike — воинственный

The Germanic tribes invaded Britain in the 5th century. When the Romans left, the country was absolutely leadless and defenseless. This was the all-time time for the Germanic tribes to come every bit for them the British Isles had been a desirable state for a long time.

The about powerful Germanic tribes to settle downwards were Angles, Saxons and Jutes.

Jutes were the start to settle in Britain. It is believed that they came from the territory of subsequently France. This tribe settled in southern part of Britain: in Kent and the Isle of Wight.

Angles and Saxon came from the territory of Germany and Denmark. Saxon made their homes in Sussex (South Saxons), Essex (East Saxons), Midlesex (Eye Saxons), Wessex (West Saxons). Angles settled in E Anglia: Norfolk (North folk), Suffolk (South folk) and Lincolnshire.

The British Celts fought the Germanic tribes, but Anglo-Saxon army was well organized, they were very strong and warlike and it was hard to resist them. As a consequence, the Britons had to leave their homes and go to the Western part of country to settle down there. This territory was called "Weallas» which meant «the state of the foreigners». This part of Britain is chosen Wales now. Other Celts went to the Northern role of the country to the country that is known as Scotland. Therefore, the oldest tribe of Celts inhabited Wales and Scotland.

That was a long fighting for the country, just gradually new settlers began to feel at home. The country was divided into 7 kingdoms: East Anglia, Mercia, Northumbria, where Angles settled; Essex, Sussex, Wessex with Saxon settlements and Jutes forming kingdom of Kent. Each group of settlers had a leader: a strong and successful leader became the king of the kingdom. The male monarch ruled his kingdom and had an army.

Angles were the strongest of all three tribes. Later 2 tribes: Angles and Saxons united and were called Anglo-Saxons. They chosen their country — England or «the Land of Angles».

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two. Celtic Resistance

From the paragraph you lot will know how the Celts resist the invaders and how they failed.

  • Ambrosius Aurelianus — Амвросий Аврелиан (вождь бриттов, разгромивший саксов)
  • Wansdyke — земляной вал (см. фото)
  • Male monarch Arthur [kɪŋ 'ɑːθə] — Король Артур
  • Egbert — Король Эгберт

In the early 6th century Ambrosius Aurelianus headed the resistance against the Anglo-Saxon invaders. It is believed that under the Ambrosius leadership Wansdyke was constructed, that is a series of defensive earthwork in the Westward Country dating from the Dark Ages. Ambrosius with his ground forces fought against the Saxons and won the battle at Mons Badonicus (Mount Badon). This established a flow of peace for the Britons.

A photo of Wansdyke. The Anglo-Saxon period in the history of Great Britain

A photo of Wansdyke

Some other brave Celtic tribal leader was Male monarch Arthur. We all know the legend of Rex Arthur, his knights of the Round Table, Camelot kingdom and the queen Guinevere. What was true and what was a fable we will not know now. But at that place is historical prove that at that place was a great leader, whose proper name was Arthur, who resisted and struggled against Germanic invaders in the 6th century. A lot was written about King Arthur, a man who fought for the Celtic people's independence and became a national hero.

Due to this resistance of the brave Celts, the borders of the kingdom were shifting constantly. The territory of Britain underwent many political changes: the early settlers created tribal groups, which later were formed into kingdoms and sub-kingdoms. In the 5th and sixth centuries, the land was divided into seven kingdoms, in the outset of the 9th century the land there were four kingdoms — Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia and Wessex. And during the reign of Male monarch Egbert these kingdoms were reorganized one time again.

The word "-shire" means part of the territory which was cut off. Sometimes information technology was called after a boondocks of importance, such as Derbyshire or Lincolnshire.

Egbert was the king of Wessex kingdom, but soon he became so powerful that past 827 he had conquered Mercia, Northumbria, Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Northward Wales territories that together formed England. He was acknowledged to exist the overlord of England. He is known equally the get-go monarch who established a stable rule over all of Anglo-Saxon England.

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 3. Anglo-Saxon influence

From this paragraph y'all volition know about the Anglo-Saxon influence on the land, their style of life, the names they gave to their settlements and some more.

The Anglo-Saxon menstruation continued more than 600 years from 410 to 1066 and the influence of Anglo-Saxon was smashing.

First of all, when Anglo-Saxon settlers came to Britain, they started to change the houses. They replaced the Roman stone buildings with the wooden ones, brick and tile buildings were no longer congenital. Anglo-Saxon settlers' houses were small wooden huts with a straw roof.

The Anglo-Saxon period in the history of Great Britain

The Anglo-Saxon House

Inside the house there was just one room in which the whole family lived, ate and slept. They preferred an agrarian lifestyle so most of the Roman towns were abandoned. They looked for place with lots of natural resources like food, water and woods to build and estrus their homes, that was near forests. They built villages surrounding them with high argue to protect cattle from wild animals, and to keep out enemies. Though non all Roman towns were abased. Some chiefs realized that a urban center with neat fortress was an advantage, and so they congenital wooden houses inside the walls of Roman towns like London.

 4. Anglo-Saxon place names

  • chieftain ['ʧiːft(ə)northward] — вождь
  • in accuse — во главе

The Anglo-Saxons settled in many different parts of the land – the Jutes in Kent, the Angles in East Anglia, the Saxons in parts of Essex, Wessex, Sussex and Middlesex. Early Anglo-Saxon villages were named subsequently the leader of the tribe that is for everyone to know who was in charge. For case. "Reading" was Redda's village – where Redda was the local chieftain.

Anglo-Saxons fix their ham or domicile, for example Billingham or Clapham, and their ton or town, for example, Harlington or Brighton, about the mouth of a river or in a sheltered bay. These names are still written on the maps today.

Fifty-fifty now many towns and villages however deport their Anglo-Saxon names. These places ofttimes take 'ing' or 'folk' somewhere in their name, for instance Suffolk or Norfolk (in Old English language 'inga' and 'folc' meant people). Names with ' wick / wich' endings meant craft: Woolwich (sheep), Butterwick (dairy), Chiswick (cheese).And of course the proper noun "England" also comes from the Saxon word "Angle-Land".


5. Christianity

  • religious beliefs — религиозные убеждения
  • pagans — язычники

When the Anglo-Saxons tribes came they brought their religious beliefs with them. In Roman Britain many people were Christians, but the early Anglo-Saxons were pagans. The future pope, Gregory the Keen, when showtime saw fair-haired Anglo-Saxon captives told "not Angles but angels" and dreamt that he would bring Christianity to these pagans. That happened in Ad 597, when Saint Augustine, along with twoscore companions, returned from the mission to the Angles' homeland and about of the country was converted to Christianity.


 6. English's evolution

The Anglo-Saxon period gave rising to the English language spoken communication besides as the spread of the written English. Writing came with the introduction of Christianity. There appeared professional person poets, and in seventh century the greatest monument to Anglo-Saxon poetry – "the Poem of Beowulf" was created. It tells the story of a brave pagan warrior and his battles with monsters and dragons.


 7. Legal system

In AD 928 the English state was created, which not only established a structure for the nation's police force and politics simply too was the starting time step for the afterwards English parliament. At that time there was created the law-lawmaking of King Æthelberht of Kent (560–616), Hlothere and Eadric's Code (c679–85), Wihtræd's Lawmaking (695). There appeared the Textus Roffensis or the "Rochester Codex" that contains the earliest written laws from c600 – and later codes nigh criminal offence and punishment, law and society.

Sources:

  1. М.С. Зимина, С.Б. Катенин «Англо-саксонские королевства» при участии Дж. Поллок (Великобритания), 2000, ISBN 5-7931-0133-0
  2. В.С. Кузнецова «England. History, Geography, Culture» (учебник для вузов), 1976

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